Revista Design em Foco. Universidade do Estado da Bahia. designemfoco@uneb.br. ISSN (Versión impr... more Revista Design em Foco. Universidade do Estado da Bahia. designemfoco@uneb.br. ISSN (Versión impresa): 1807-3778. BRASIL. 2006. Özlem Er / H. Alpay Er. PESQUISA EM DESIGN INDUSTRIAL EM UM PAÍS DE INDUSTRIALIZAÇÃO. ...
By its very nature, industrial design education tries to be in close contact with the industry. D... more By its very nature, industrial design education tries to be in close contact with the industry. Design academics try to foresee the future needs of the industry and revise the existing education programs accordingly. As industrial design education is traditionally structured to address the general needs of mainly large manufacturing companies, its sphere of interest does not commonly cover the economic and social problems pertaining to certain contexts and localities. This has been especially the experience of industrial design education in countries like Turkey as its establishment accompanied the modernization process of those countries. In these countries, the design education's links with the local context have been weak and the conditions existing on the ground have usually been ignored by design academics as they were expected to change as a consequence of the industrial and cultural development process that they would go through in time (Er and Kaya, 2008; Er and Er, 2006). This situation started to change mainly due to the enormity of the challenges ahead of the countries resulting from socioeconomic and environmental problems. These problems force design education to re-interpret its mission and broaden its scope of interest as to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development. On the other hand, the specific nature of the problems to the local contexts requires the development of specific solutions to those contexts. This paper reports an example of design education's engagement with the problems and challenges pertaining to a specific locality. The particular engagement consists of a diagnosis study to identify the nature of a productive network in a district of historical significance in Istanbul. The study constitutes a part of a series of activities to increase the visibility of the positive qualities of the district and to explore how design and design thinking can help in generating viable proposals for their survival and upgrading.
Agrindustrial Design, 1st product and service …, 2006
... Arçelik as a major producer and distributor made the first hybrid object that combines a kett... more ... Arçelik as a major producer and distributor made the first hybrid object that combines a kettle and a teapot: Tiryaki (see Mutlu and Er, 2003). ... 2003 TR20030756^ lurettin Uğur Electrical tea brewing machine that Is not effected by the changes in the main voltage 26.05. ...
Revista Design em Foco. Universidade do Estado da Bahia. designemfoco@uneb.br. ISSN (Versión impr... more Revista Design em Foco. Universidade do Estado da Bahia. designemfoco@uneb.br. ISSN (Versión impresa): 1807-3778. BRASIL. 2006. Özlem Er / H. Alpay Er. PESQUISA EM DESIGN INDUSTRIAL EM UM PAÍS DE INDUSTRIALIZAÇÃO. ...
By its very nature, industrial design education tries to be in close contact with the industry. D... more By its very nature, industrial design education tries to be in close contact with the industry. Design academics try to foresee the future needs of the industry and revise the existing education programs accordingly. As industrial design education is traditionally structured to address the general needs of mainly large manufacturing companies, its sphere of interest does not commonly cover the economic and social problems pertaining to certain contexts and localities. This has been especially the experience of industrial design education in countries like Turkey as its establishment accompanied the modernization process of those countries. In these countries, the design education's links with the local context have been weak and the conditions existing on the ground have usually been ignored by design academics as they were expected to change as a consequence of the industrial and cultural development process that they would go through in time (Er and Kaya, 2008; Er and Er, 2006). This situation started to change mainly due to the enormity of the challenges ahead of the countries resulting from socioeconomic and environmental problems. These problems force design education to re-interpret its mission and broaden its scope of interest as to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development. On the other hand, the specific nature of the problems to the local contexts requires the development of specific solutions to those contexts. This paper reports an example of design education's engagement with the problems and challenges pertaining to a specific locality. The particular engagement consists of a diagnosis study to identify the nature of a productive network in a district of historical significance in Istanbul. The study constitutes a part of a series of activities to increase the visibility of the positive qualities of the district and to explore how design and design thinking can help in generating viable proposals for their survival and upgrading.
Agrindustrial Design, 1st product and service …, 2006
... Arçelik as a major producer and distributor made the first hybrid object that combines a kett... more ... Arçelik as a major producer and distributor made the first hybrid object that combines a kettle and a teapot: Tiryaki (see Mutlu and Er, 2003). ... 2003 TR20030756^ lurettin Uğur Electrical tea brewing machine that Is not effected by the changes in the main voltage 26.05. ...
Er, H. Alpay, Fatma Korkut and Özlem Er, eds. Nesnel 1: Türkiye'de Tasarım Eğitimi [Design educat... more Er, H. Alpay, Fatma Korkut and Özlem Er, eds. Nesnel 1: Türkiye'de Tasarım Eğitimi [Design education in Turkey]. Nesnel kitap dizisi 1. İstanbul: Boyut Yayın Grubu, 1998.
A fundamental feature of international or cross-cultural workshops is the drive for learning abou... more A fundamental feature of international or cross-cultural workshops is the drive for learning about the others. In such workshops, being a tutor or student does not matter as all workshop participants share the same curiosity to find out about different life experiences. Such a workshop was undertaken in fall 2006 at the Department of Industrial Product Design, Istanbul Technical University (ITU) with the participation of the tutors and the students of the third-year Product Design Studio class (43 students in total). The workshop, " Private Water, " was among a series of activities planned under an international project initiated by Georg-Christof Bertsch, a design consultant and educator from Germany. The project defined as " Reflecting Waters " involves activities in Bezalel The workshop program started with an introductory lecture on the significance of water from the perspectives of different cultures and religions. This was followed by brief information on the Reflecting Waters project, its scope and content. Following this lecture, Georg Bertsch started the workshop by explaining the procedure to be followed in the allocated period of time which was five work days. The first action was to form groups around two themes of the workshop which was defined as " in bath " and " mineral water. " Eight groups were formed to work on these two themes; four groups working on the first theme while the remaining four on the second one. Following the formation of the groups, students in all the groups were given the task of taking at least 10 photos of all kinds of objects related to water in private and public spaces. On the second day of the workshop, the photos were collected and formatted, renamed and the results were loaded on the project's input files on the project server. These were prepared as four 15-minute PowerPoint presentations about different kinds of objects, such as bathroom applications, public fountains and so on. The discussions on these presentations were the most valuable part of the workshop and this constituted the source of inspiration for this paper. The main positive aspect of these discussions relates to the efforts of explaining such as why in most of the Turkish bathrooms there are plastic seating units or water containers in the bath tubs, the reasons both cultural and religious for a special device for cleaning one's body built in the water closets or specific patterns of bathing or cleansing, the origins of the forms of various water containers used in Anatolian houses. The act of explaining itself allows self-understanding and self-reflection as well as developing a critical view into one's own culture.
This paper focuses on what design in business entails. For this purpose, initially existing desig... more This paper focuses on what design in business entails. For this purpose, initially existing design management literature is reviewed to reveal various design classification models suggested by different authors. Secondly, the paper offers an updated conceptual model for corporate domains affected by designby analyzing various conceptualizations in the marketing literature. The goal is to reach a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and updated classification model that incorporates many of the physical manifestations of design. For this purpose, design germination is used as a metaphor: Planting the design seed is not adequate to grow a deep-rooted tree. Similarly, to benefit all the corporate domains from the shadow of the tree; different design disciplines are to confront, communicate and collaborate in harmony. To facilitate collaboration, having a unanimously accepted picture of the territory of design is important. On the other hand, empirical findings suggest that such an unanimously accepted territory of design among non-designer executives does not exist.
Synopsis This paper explores the evolutionary change in the use of design in the specific case of... more Synopsis This paper explores the evolutionary change in the use of design in the specific case of development of a major sanitaryware manufacturing company in Turkey. The paper first outlines the conditions, which led to the use of design strategically for the manufacturing company. It then focuses on a product designed by a Turkish design consultancy for this company, where the task of the consultancy was to design a product, which would fulfill the specific needs stemming from the ritual ablution. This assignment has taken place at a phase in the development of the company when it needed to create a product range consisting of innovative products, in harmony with its aim to be the pioneer of the modern bathroom. The local culture,
Konsept Projeler dergisi Ocak 2013 sayısında Design Turkey Endüstriyel Tasarım Ödülleri 2012 değe... more Konsept Projeler dergisi Ocak 2013 sayısında Design Turkey Endüstriyel Tasarım Ödülleri 2012 değerlendirme yazısı
The design profession evolved during technologically transformative times of industrialization. W... more The design profession evolved during technologically transformative times of industrialization. While the requirements of mass production have been the major paradigm shaping the nature of industrial design education in industrialised countries, developing countries also embraced it despite their late and peculiar processes of industrialisation. The idea was that the industrial sectors in these countries would also need industrial designers who are able to design products for mass production. This, in turn, caused the ignorance of crafts or at best the view to keep them as a source of product ideas that would appeal to tourists or export markets looking for "authentic" products. In this paper, we will explore the past and current ways of linking with crafts in design education in three countries with different historical backgrounds and industrialization experiences. We identify some of the notable differences and overlaps in the integration of crafts in design schools in three different countries and show reciprocal influences between crafts and design schools with a modernist tradition.
By its very nature, industrial design education tries to be in close contact with the industry. D... more By its very nature, industrial design education tries to be in close contact with the industry. Design academics try to foresee the future needs of the industry and revise the existing education programs accordingly. As industrial design education is traditionally structured to address the general needs of mainly large manufacturing companies, its sphere of interest does not commonly cover the economic and social problems pertaining to certain contexts and localities. This has been especially the experience of industrial design education in countries like Turkey as its establishment accompanied the modernization process of those countries. In these countries, the design education's links with the local context have been weak and the conditions existing on the ground have usually been ignored by design academics as they were expected to change as a consequence of the industrial and cultural development process that they would go through in time (Er and Kaya, 2008; Er and Er, 2006). This situation started to change mainly due to the enormity of the challenges ahead of the countries resulting from socioeconomic and environmental problems. These problems force design education to re-interpret its mission and broaden its scope of interest as to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development. On the other hand, the specific nature of the problems to the local contexts requires the development of specific solutions to those contexts. This paper reports an example of design education's engagement with the problems and challenges pertaining to a specific locality. The particular engagement consists of a diagnosis study to identify the nature of a productive network in a district of historical significance in Istanbul. The study constitutes a part of a series of activities to increase the visibility of the positive qualities of the district and to explore how design and design thinking can help in generating viable proposals for their survival and upgrading.
Organizasyonel kültür firma bünyesinde gerçekleştirilen tüm faaliyetlerde davranışları, işin işle... more Organizasyonel kültür firma bünyesinde gerçekleştirilen tüm faaliyetlerde davranışları, işin işleyiş tarzını etkileyen bir çerçeve görevi yapmaktadır. Organizasyonel kültür doğru yönlendirildiği zaman, tasarımı kolaylaştırmak, yeni fikirlerin ve perspektiflerin kabul edilebilirliğini sağlamak için gerekli olan organizasyonel değişimi gerçekleştirmede anahtar rol oynamaktadır. Organizasyonel kültürü tasarımı destekleyecek şekilde geliştirmiş olan firmalar kriz sürecinde tasarım çalışmalarına ara veren birçok firmanın aksine geleceğe yatırım yaparak yeni projeler üretebilmektedirler. Organizasyonel kültürün firmaların, yeni ürün tasarımı anlayışlarını ve organizasyonel yapılanmalarını nasıl etkilediğini anlamak için “tasarım denetim” araçlarının kullanılması mümkündür. Tasarım denetimleri firma ya da kurumların birçok faaliyet alanında, o anki performansları ile arzu edilen performansları arasındaki farkı tanımlamak için kullanmakta ve performans arttırmak için gerekli eylem planlarının geliştirilmesinde kullanılacak bilgiyi sağlamaktadırlar. Organizasyonel kültür kapsamında yer alan konulara göre yapılandırılan ‘tasarım denetim araçları’ tasarım gerçekleştiren üç farklı firmada uygulanmıştır. Bu bildiride organizasyonel kültür kavramının firmaların tasarımı biliçli ve stratejik kullanımına etkisi irdelenmekte ve uygulanan tasarım denetim çalışmasının sonuçları yansıtılmaktadır.
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